Star Wars: The Last Jedi

‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi,’ is the eighth film in the main ‘Star Wars’ saga, and continues the epic sci-fi story from 2015’s ‘The Force Awakens.’ Daisy Ridley and John Boyega star as Rey and Finn, who in this film team with Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) to push back against the First Order and Kylo Ren (Adam Driver). ‘The Last Jedi’ is written and directed by Rian Johnson (‘Looper’).

Russian Bots Targeted ‘The Last Jedi’
Russian Bots Targeted ‘The Last Jedi’
Russian Bots Targeted ‘The Last Jedi’
Although Russian bots are typically associated with real-world politics, it turns out that they’re also heavily invested in fictional politics, too — even those in galaxies far, far away. In the new documentary The Director and the Jedi (out now with the digital release of The Last Jedi), director Rian Johnson spends a few minutes discussing a curious development in the Star Wars franchise: Those pesky Russian bots (can we call them droids in this instance?) were staging a social media campaign designed to save…General Hux, of all people.

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